new player - game setup

[Lastwish]

Hi all,
I am keep playing Civ3 but looking for a change, want to try else...

I enjoy playing:
- massive world maps
- lot of civilizations (modern world scenarios or just starting in real locations)
- slow research
- few slow turns per day (don't mind gamin running in background while doing turn

I found this map/save:
HUGE earth map (500x250)
viewtopic.php?t=158
But can't load it as save game/load scenario - lost connection to sever error.

Can anyone help me with loading this, or can suggest some mod with massive world map/a lot of civilizations/massive tech tree/ building options etc

Thanks

[cazfi]

Linux, Windows, or Mac?

Exact details depend on the operating system, but in principle you should run the freeciv-server separately on a terminal, and attempt to load scenario there, to see what kind of error messages (if any) the server gives.

[Lastwish]

Using W11 and Ubuntu, was going to email myself "currnet save file" when need to use different system while away

[cazfi]

Ubuntu (linux) is better for the exercise.

Open terminal.
Run freeciv-server with the "-f" -parameter loading the scenario. (I have it installed with the modpack installer, to /home/cazfi/.freeciv/scenarios)

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$ freeciv-server -f /home/cazfi/.freeciv/scenarios/earth-500x250-v1.1.sav.bz2

What does it say?

[Lastwish]

Hi,
Sorry for late response been away for few days

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[$ freeciv-server -f /home/Downloads/earth-500x250-v1.1.sav.bz2
This is the server for Freeciv version 3.1.0
You can learn a lot about Freeciv at https://www.freeciv.org/
This freeciv-server program has player authentication support, but it's currently not in use.
1: Error loading savefile '/home/Downloads/earth-500x250-v1.1.sav.bz2': 
Could not load savefile: /home/Downloads/earth-500x250-v1.1.sav.bz2
3: Loading rulesets.
3: Ruleset: 'aifill' has been set to 6.
3: Ruleset: 'generator' has been set to "Pseudo-fractal height" (FRACTAL).
3: Ruleset: 'topology' has been set to "Wrap East-West", "Wrap North-South", "Isometric", and "Hexagonal" (WRAPX|WRAPY|ISO|HEX).
3: Ruleset: 'mapsize' has been set to "Tiles per player" (PLAYER).
3: Ruleset: 'tinyisles' has been set to enabled.
3: Ruleset: 'temperature' has been set to 60.
3: Ruleset: 'flatpoles' has been set to 0.
3: Ruleset: 'startunits' has been set to "cwsx".
3: Ruleset: 'citymindist' has been set to 3.
3: Ruleset: 'techlevel' has been set to 1.
3: Ruleset: 'foggedborders' has been set to enabled.
3: Ruleset: 'restrictinfra' has been set to enabled.
3: Ruleset: 'unreachableprotects' has been set to disabled.
3: Ruleset: 'onsetbarbs' has been set to 120.
3: Ruleset: 'occupychance' has been set to 100.
3: Ruleset: 'razechance' has been set to 10.
3: Ruleset: 'techlossforgiveness' has been set to 0.
3: Ruleset: 'revolentype' has been set to "Random, max always quicker" (RANDQUICK).
3: Ruleset: 'tradeworldrelpct' has been set to 100.
3: AI*1 has been added as Easy level AI-controlled player (classic).
3: AI*2 has been added as Easy level AI-controlled player (classic).
3: AI*3 has been added as Easy level AI-controlled player (classic).
3: AI*4 has been added as Easy level AI-controlled player (classic).
3: AI*5 has been added as Easy level AI-controlled player (classic).
3: AI*6 has been added as Easy level AI-controlled player (classic).
3: Now accepting new client connections on port 5556.

For introductory help, type 'help'.
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[cazfi]

Hi,
Sorry for late response been away for few days

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[$ freeciv-server -f /home/Downloads/earth-500x250-v1.1.sav.bz2
This is the server for Freeciv version 3.1.0
You can learn a lot about Freeciv at https://www.freeciv.org/
This freeciv-server program has player authentication support, but it's currently not in use.
1: Error loading savefile '/home/Downloads/earth-500x250-v1.1.sav.bz2': 
Could not load savefile: /home/Downloads/earth-500x250-v1.1.sav.bz2

Seems like you forgot your username part of the path. "/home/<user>/Downloads/..."

[Lastwish]

Hi,
<facepalm>

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This is the server for Freeciv version 3.1.0
You can learn a lot about Freeciv at https://www.freeciv.org/
This freeciv-server program has player authentication support, but it's currently not in use.
1: Too old savegame format not supported any more.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

[cazfi]

Ok, so that file from the other thread is in very old format, not supported any more by the current freeciv versions.

The version in the modpack has been updated to a newer format, so I recommend installing the modpack. On Windows, modpack installer comes with freeciv. On Ubuntu you may need to install separate freeciv-ruleset-tools package.